Issue 29, 2024

Galloborates as ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals: advances and perspectives

Abstract

Metal borates are excellent source materials for exploring short-wavelength nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals. Galloborates show rich structural chemistry with various coordination configurations of Ga cation and B–O anionic units and are suitable candidates as ultraviolet NLO crystals. Up to now, the shortest cut-off edge of galloborates was reported to be down to 190 nm in KCs2Ga(B5O10)(OH), while the largest second harmonic generation (SHG) effect of galloborates was reported to be up to 4.6 times that of KH2PO4 (KDP) in Na5Ga[B7O12(OH)]2·2B(OH)3. Herein, we give a detailed summary of the recent progress in NLO inorganic galloborates, where these galloborates are grouped into two types in terms of their compositions: (1) alkali/alkaline earth metal galloborates and (2) alkali/alkaline earth metal galloborate halides. We discuss their structural features, band gaps, and SHG intensities. Finally, we give future perspectives in this field.

Graphical abstract: Galloborates as ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals: advances and perspectives

Article information

Article type
Frontier
Submitted
24 Eph 2024
Accepted
14 Jun 2024
First published
17 Jun 2024

Dalton Trans., 2024,53, 12034-12042

Galloborates as ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals: advances and perspectives

J. Lu, Y. Ou, C. Jin and J. Cheng, Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 12034 DOI: 10.1039/D4DT01206B

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